Black Female Animators Launch Call for Action

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Police and council officials must ramp-up efforts to snare speedsters on a notoriously dangerous village road, a councillor has insisted.Councillor James MacLaren has called for action to be taken on the A761 running between Bridge of Weir and Brookfield, where he fears there may soon be a major accident.The Bridge of Weir representative said he had been flooded with complaints about drivers regularly breaking the limit,

Black-ish actress Marsai Martin is firing back at haters after appearing virtually at the 2020 BET Awards on Sunday night (June 28).

A League Of Their Own.The 1992 movie starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Madonna follows two sisters who join the first female professional baseball league but struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.Today (June 29), Union dug up a 2018 tweet from American football player-turned-director Matthew A.

David Robb Labor EditorIn the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, more than 700 actors, recording artists and entertainment and music industry organizations and their supporters have signed a letter urging swift passage of the Justice in Policing Act.

Kendrick Sampson After co-organizing a demonstration in Los Angeles at which he was hit with a police baton and shot seven times with rubber bullets, Kendrick Sampson (“Insecure,” “Miss Juneteenth”) has penned a letter to the entertainment industry at large, asking Hollywood to divest from the police and invest in the Black community.

Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Foxx and more stars took the time to honour essential workers amid the coronavirus pandemic in Harry Connick Jr.’s CBS special, “United We Sing: A Grammy Tribute to the Unsung Heroes”, on Sunday.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorBlack Artists for Freedom, a new coalition of more than 1,000 actors, musicians, filmmakers, painters, poets and others, launched Friday with a powerful statement on the occasion of Juneteenth, the holiday that celebrates the official end of slavery in the U.S. 155 years ago.Signees include Barry Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Dee Rees, Trevor Noah, Roxane Gay, Sterling K.

Terry Flores Northern California-based indie toon houses Baobab Studios, Kuku Studios and Tonko House have joined forces to form the Bay Area Animation Alliance to build a community of industry professionals in the area and foster creativity.One of the group’s first events was to hold an auction of original work by artists from each of the studios to benefit the Equal Justice Initiative — founded by lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson — whose goal it is to end mass incarceration and excessive

Annie Lennox, who founded the feminist NGO The Circle in 2008, launched The Circle Music Auction Tuesday (June 16) to raise funds for women around the world who are disproportionally impacted by coronavirus.

Jamie Lang Chile’s animation industry has gone from nearly non-existent to one of the most highly regarded and best exported in Latin America in just two decades.For the third consecutive year, a Chilean feature is in competition at Annecy (“Nahuel and the Magic Book” 2020, “Homeless” 2019, “The Wolf House” 2018), and in 2016 “Bear Story” became the first-ever Chilean film to win an Oscar, taking home the award for best animated short.So how did the Andean country go from bust to boom so

Annecy: COVID Resilient, Though Not COVID Immune“Festivals’ going online is a test or demonstration of brand value. Annecy is not having a physical market, but you still really want to be associated with it, even if it’s online.

racist conduct” after an “abhorrent” message was tweeted from an official account.More than 400 past and present pupils from Lenzie Academy in East Dunbartonshire have so far put their names to the statement, which is to be sent to headteacher Brian Paterson on Thursday night.It comes after council chiefs launched an investigation into a tweet mocking the Take the Knee campaign, launched in the wake of George Floyd’s death, which was sent out from the school’s official physics department page

Hayley Williams handed over her Instagram handle to Teens4Equality to give young Black female activists her platform, she highlighted a Black female artist who covered one of her Paramore hits from her days.Williams spoke out on Twitter yesterday (June 8) after several social media users asked the pop-punk singer-songwriter to delete some of Teens4Equality's Instagram posts, which received major backlash for addressing systemic oppression, police brutality and white privilege.

Adam Cole revealed the hilarious mishap that landed him his very first WWE appearance. The wrestler, whose real name is Austin Jenkins, recalled his first communication with WWE and how the company offered him a gig by mistake.